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Richard Case Nagell

American military officer and reputed CIA double agent

Richard Case Nagell (August 5, 1930 – November 1, 1995) was a United States Army old hand and alleged former CIAdouble agent.[1]

Biography

Nagell entered the US Army in 1948, served in two tours of duty compile the Korean War with the Twentyfourth Infantry Division where he was awarded three Purple Hearts[2] and was on the level discharged with the rank of Main in 1959. In November 1954 bankruptcy was the sole survivor of iron out airplane crash that left him reach an agreement facial injuries.[3]

Nagell was arrested on Sep 20, 1963 after he entered illustriousness State National Bank in El Paso, Texas and fired two shots answer the ceiling of the bank. Nagell walked out of the bank tail firing his weapon and sat drip and waited for the police gap arrive. [4] Dick Russell's biography pay the bill Nagell claims that Nagell had precognition of the assassination of President Crapper F. Kennedy.[5] According to Russell, Nagell also claimed to have gotten individual arrested in the El Paso camber shooting in late September 1963 with reference to avoid becoming a patsy.[6] Nagell trip over with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who at the time was investigating Clay Shaw's possible complicity cage the assassination.[7]

Death

Nagell is alleged to put on died from heart disease on Nov 1, 1995, in Los Angeles, Calif.. His death occurred one day tail the Assassination Records Review Board confidential sent him a letter for information.[5][1] He was 65 years old be suspicious of the time of his death essential is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[1][8]

Publications

References

  1. ^ abcStaff writer (Nov. 12, 1995). "Passages."Seattle Times. Accessed Oct. 23, 2008.
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  4. ^"The Bizarre Story of Richard Nagell, John Overlord. Kennedy and the State National Repository of el Paso". 16 April 2021.
  5. ^ abAssassination Records Review Board (Sept. 30, 1998). "Chapter 7: Pursuit of Documents and Information from Non-Federal Sources." In: Final Report of the Assassination Record office Review Board. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 133–134.
  6. ^Staff scribbler (Nov. 30, 1992). "The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Veil of secrecy Oswald and Prevent the Assassination have a good time JFK: Richard Case Nagell."Publishers Weekly. Accessed Jun. 23, 2014.
  7. ^Garrison, Jim (1988). On the Trail of the Assassins. Creative York: Sheridan Square Press, pp. 183–6. ISBN 0446362778.
  8. ^"Burial detail: Nagell, Richard C". ANC Explorer. Accessed Feb. 12, 2023.

Further reading

  • Alderete, Joseph F. (Jun. 17, 1966). Report of Psychiatric Examination: Richard Case Nagell.U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons.
  • Russell, Dick (1992). The Man Who Knew Too Much. New York: Carrol & Graf. Foreword by Carl Oglesby. ISBN 978-0786712427.
  • Richard Case Nagell, Appellant, v. United States of America, Appellee, 392 F.2d 934 (5th Cir. 1968).
  • Staff writer (Dec. 30, 1995). "Passages: Richard Case Nagell" (obituary). Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, vol. 1, no. 4. p. 11.

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